3rd Grade Goals

Welcome to 3rd Grade

Reading Goals

Term 2 (January-March)

Unit 4: Character Studies

Students will be learning about the characters in their books by studying how they talk, act, like
Students will look at character traits of the characters in their books
Students will develop theories about their characters
Students notice how characters move along the story mountain
Students will learn how characters face and react to trouble
Students will learn the relationship between the main character and the secondary characters
Students will learn that characters learn a lesson in the story
Students will compare and contrast characters across stories
Students will debate about character across stories
Students will apply what they have learned about a character

Unit 5: Test Prep

Students will practice reading strategies while reading fiction and nonfiction passages and answering questions
Students will determine the main idea, use subheadings to guide their reading, use context clues to figure out meaning
Students will work on building their reading stamina
Students will read folktales and determine the moral of the story

Term 2 (January-March)

Unit 4: Baby Literary Essay (Opinion)

Students will write claims about the characters in their books
Students will think about relevant details and irrelevant details to support their claim
Students will use relevant details from their text to support their claim
Students will develop a claim about a story and the characters in a story
Students will use reasons and details to support their claim
Students will include an introduction and conclusion in their literary essay

Unit 5: Test Prep

Students will pay close attention to understand what the question is asking
Students will determine the difference between explaining “why” and how it’s different from “how”
Students will notice how parts of stories fit together and relate to the whole story
Students will write a response that includes a great introduction
Students will use evidence from text to support their claim

Term 2 (January-March)

Topic 7: Represent and Interpret Data

Topic 8: Understanding Strategies and Properties to Add and Subtract

Students solve real world problems using properties of addition
Students identify patterns in addition table and explain them using algebraic thinking
Students will use mental math to add and subtract
Students will use place value and a number line to round numbers
Students will use rounding or compatible numbers to estimate a sum
Students will solve one step and multi step problems by modeling with math

Topic 9: Fluently Add and Subtract within 1,000

Students will add two 3-digit numbers by breaking apart problems into simpler problems
Students will use regrouping to add 3 digit numbers
Students will add three or more number using addition strategies
Students will use multi-digit numbers using the expanded algorithm
Students will use regrouping to subtract 3 digit numbers
Students will use addition and subtraction to justify a conjecture

Topic 10: Multiply by Multiples of 10

Students will use patterns to find products when one factor is a multiple of 10
Students will use different strategies to find products when one factor is a multiple of 10
Students will use properties of multiplication to find products when one factor is a multiple of 10
Students will use the structure of multiplication and place value to find products when one factor is a multiple of 10

Topic 11: Use Operations with Whole Numbers to Solve Problems

Students will draw diagrams and write equations to solve two-step problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers and multiplication and division of whole numbers
Students will examine relationships between quantities in a two-step word problem by writing equations
Students will critique the reasoning of others by asking questions, identifying mistakes, and providing suggestions for improvement

Topic 12: Understand Fractions as Numbers

Students will understand how to read and write unit fractions for equal sized parts of a region
Students will use a fraction to represent multiple copies of a unit fraction
Students will determine and draw the whole given one part
Students will represent fractions less than 1 and greater than 1 on a number line
Students will measure length to the nearest half inch and show the data on a line plot
Students will measure length to the nearest fourth inch and show the data on a line plot
Students will determine when a problem has either extra or missing information

Topic 13: Fraction Equivalence and Comparison